Supporting-frame for landing-nets



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SUPPORTING FRAME FOR LANDING NETS, 650'- (No Model.)

No 559,802. Patented May 12, 1896 AN DRE" 5. GRAHAM ,HIUTO-ETMQWAS (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

D. HUNT. SUPPORTING FRAME FOR LANDING NETS, 850. No. 559,802. Patented May'12, 1896.

W-Zifiii I I- UNITED STATES DAVID HUNT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SUPPORTING-FRAME. FOR LANDING-NETS, 65.1.0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 559,802, dated May 12, 1896.

Application filed September 4, 1895.

To CLZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID HUNT, of Boston, county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Supporting-Frames with Attached Handles for D ust- Bags and other Articles, of which the followin g description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters and numerals on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to construct a supporting-frame and attached handle which may be utilized for dust-bags, landin g-nets, and various other purposes; and the invention consists in details of construction to be hereinafter pointed out and claimed.

Figure 1 shows in perspective view a frame and attached handle embodying this invention Fig. 2, a similar view showing a flexible bag connected with the frame shown in Fig. 1 to thereby form a dustbag; Fig. 3, a modified form of frame suitable for a landing-net, having the handle shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a side view of the handle; and Fig. 5, a crossscction of the handle, taken on the dotted line a: 42'}, Fig.

The handle consists, essentially, of the cylindrical or other shaped block a, formed at each side with a longitudinal groove (1/, and a wire bent to embrace said block, it being bent in such manner as to form an eye 1) at the upper end of the block and to enter the side grooves a in said block, as shown, and at the lower end of the block to project a short distance, converging toward and entering a ferrule 0. This handle, constructed in this way or some equivalent manner, may be used for various purposes and is a cheap form of construction to produce and very serviceable, and it is therefore included as one of the features of my invention.

The frame shown in Fig. 1 is especially designed for use as the supporting-frame of the dust-bag shown in Fig. 2, and it consists of a wire bent into shape for this purpose, and for simplicity the wire which embraces the block a of the handle may form a part of the frame-wire, if desired, as Ihave herein shown. In such case one end of the wire, as 0 is driven into the lower end of the block a, or it may enter a suitable socket formed therein It then passes through the ferfor security.

Serial No. 561,401. (No model.)

rule 0 and is turned toward the right, as at 3, thence downward, as at 4-, thence inward, as at 5, thence upward, as at 6, substantially parallel with the portion at, thence turned to the left, as at 7, substantially parallel with the portion 3, thence outward, as at 8, thence up through the ferrule c and along one side of the block (a, entering the groove therein, thence looped to form the eye Z), thence down along the otherside of the block a and through the ferrule or clamp c, and then to the left, as at 9, then downward, as at 10, then inward, as at 12, then upward, as at 13, then toward the right, as at 14, then up through the ferrule o, and its end 15 is driven into or enters a socket formed in the lower end of the block a. The two ends of the wire are thus firmly secured to the block a. The supporting-frame thus constructed of wire and bent as shown may be utilized as a frame for a dust-bag-such, for instance, as shown in Fig. 2, wherein a flexible bag 0, of canvas or other suitable material, has its front edge turned over and connected with the frame.

As shown in Fig. 3, the wire frame is made circular; but the essential difference in the frames is the shape in which they are bent. Such a frame as shown in Fig. 3 may be used for a landing-net or for other purposes, and hence I desire to include within the spirit and scope of my invention any shape of frame when constructed in substantially the manner shown.

I claim 1. The supporting-frame and attached handle herein described, consisting of the block a, socketed at one end and having grooved sides, a wire bent to form a supporting-frame and to enter the grooves in the sides of the block a, the ends of said wire entering the socket in said block a and being thereby secured, substantially as described.

2. The supporting-frame and attached handle herein described, consisting of the block a, socketed at one end and having grooved sides, a wire bent to form a supporting-frame and to enter the grooves in the sides of the block a, and also to form an eye at the outer end of the block a, substautiall y as described.

3. The supporting-frame and attached han dle herein described, consisting of the block a, socketed at one end and having grooved sides, a wire bent to form a supporting-frame and to enter the grooves in the sides of the block a, the ends of said wire entering the socket in said block a, and being thereby secured, and a ferrule or clamp near the lower end of the block a, through which the wire passes back and forth, substantially as described.

4c. The handle consisting of the block a having grooved sides, and the wire embracin g it, entering the grooves in its sides, and

formed at one end with an eye, and projecting a short distance beyond the block at the opposite end for connection with a frame, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DAVID HUNT. iVitnesses:

B. J. NoYEs, F. H. DAVIS. 

